<div dir="ltr">Hello ambassadors,<div>Good morning from Egypt :)<br><div>Two days ago the government here in Egypt anunced a deal with Microsoft , with 43M$</div><div>All opensource communities and activists in Egypt started to move and act to stop that deal or at least limit It's effect</div>
<div>We organized a stand (1) In front of the prime minister's office (2)(3)</div><div>Ahmed Mekkawy(4)(5) (OpenEgypt(6) member and Opensource Activist) arranged a meeting with the minister of communications in Egypt who's in charge of almost anything related to IT field in the government </div>
<div>Nadeen(7) and I attended the meeting as Fedora Community Ambassadors </div><div>There has been other communities in the meeting (Ubuntu(8), Adf(9) and others )</div><div>We've talked about many things but the results was not as expected, they are still continuing with the deal as it</div>
<div>But they promised there'll be a commitment to open source in the upcoming projects, also they said there will be other meetings </div><div>People in the street started to ask "What's opensource? why ?" , That's a great achievement for us </div>
<div>As I said this is not our last move<br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>1) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/368019856627453/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/368019856627453/</a><br></div>
<div>2) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cARRc5XVUnM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cARRc5XVUnM</a> </div>
<div>3) <a href="http://www.aswatmasriya.com/multimedia/micro" target="_blank">http://www.aswatmasriya.com/multimedia/micro</a></div><div>4) <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/linuxawy" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/linuxawy</a></div>
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5) <a href="https://twitter.com/linuxawy" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/linuxawy</a></div><div>6) <a href="http://www.openegypt.net/node/5926" target="_blank">http://www.openegypt.net/node/5926</a></div><div>7) <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nspirit" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nspirit</a></div>
<div>8) <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam</a></div><div>9) <a href="http://arabdigitalexpression.org/" target="_blank">http://arabdigitalexpression.org/</a><br clear="all">
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</div><div>Ahmed M. Araby</div></div><div>(FAS : egydev)</div></div>